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From: Michael Shields <shields@msrl.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Training for ham and training for spam
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:54:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oevz4y6a.fsf@mulligatwani.msrl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76u15ru93j.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> (Jake Colman's message of "Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:39:28 -0500")

In message <76u15ru93j.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com>,
Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> wrote:
> Is it truly necessary to train for ham or can I just train for spam.

You need to train for both; Bayesian filters work not only by
recognizing what features are correlated with spam, but also what
features indicate that mail is likely to be ham.
-- 
Shields.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-29 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-29 19:39 Jake Colman
2003-10-29 19:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-10-29 19:54 ` Michael Shields [this message]
2003-10-29 14:26   ` Ian Dobbie
2003-10-30 14:39     ` Michael Shields

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